Acute stress-induced cortisol elevations mediate reward system activity during subconscious processing of sexual stimuli

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 111-120

  Oei, Nicole Y L ^a,b   Both, Stephanie ^a,b   van Heemst, Diana ^a,c   van der Grond, Jeroen ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Cortisol; Functional Imaging; Nucleus Accumbens; Reward; Social stress

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BACKWARD MASKING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMOTIONALITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REWARD; SEX; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADULT; ANHEDONIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HORMONE RESPONSE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEXUAL AROUSAL; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST;

BACKWARD MASKING; CORTISOL; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; REWARD; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; SALIVA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888049595     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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